FBI didn't leave empty-handed from Trump's home, but some of the documents might have been declassified, and the attorney-client privilege protected some. At the same time, other records were reportedly covered by executive privilege (via Fox News):
The FBI seized boxes containing records covered by attorney-client privilege and potentially executive privilege during its raid of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News, adding that the Justice Department opposed Trump lawyers' request for the appointment of an independent, special master to review the records.
Sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News Saturday that the former president's team was informed that boxes labeled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33, and a set of documents-all seen on the final page of the FBI's property receipt -contained information covered by attorney-client privilege.
The FBI seized classified records from Trump's Palm Beach home during its unprecedented Monday morning raid, including some marked as top secret. But the former president is disputing the classification, saying the records have been declassified.
Sources told Fox News that some records could be covered by executive privilege, which gives the president of the United States and other officials within the executive branch the authority to withhold certain sensitive forms of advice and consultation between the president and senior advisors.
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Trump Calls for Seized Documents to Be Returned to Mar-A-Lago
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday called for the Justice Department to return the reams of documents FBI agents seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week, pointing to a report that said the information was covered by attorney-client or executive privilege.
"Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged ‘attorney-client' material, and also ‘executive' privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken," Trump said on his Truth Social site.
"By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!," the former president said in the posting.
Fox News reported, citing sources close to the investigation, that team Trump was told that at least five boxes - labeled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33, and a set of documents - taken under authority of the search warrant contained information covered by attorney-client or executive privilege​.
The documents were among a cache of materials taken from Trump's palatial Palm Beach home last Monday, including binders of photos, a handwritten note, a leatherbound box of documents, an "executive grant of clemency" for longtime aide Roger Stone, according to a property list of items released on Friday by the FBI.
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